“Literature and the Social Left.” Rev. of Proletarian Literature in the United States, by Granville Hickes et al.; The American Writers’ Congress, by Henry Hart. Saturday Review of Literature 2 November 1935: 3.

“Poetry and the Common Reader.” American Mercury September 1941: 371-377.

“Sane Books in an Insane World.” American Mercury October 1941: 499-504.

“Critics and History.” American MercuryNovember 1941: 627-632.

“The Viking Book of English Verse.” Rev. of The Viking Book of Poetry of the English Speaking World, ed. Richard Aldington. New York Times Book Review 30 November 1941: 5.

“The New Books of Poetry.” Rev. of The Poem of Bunker Hill, by Harry Brown; Shenandoah, by Delmore Schwartz; Poems and New Poems, by Louise Bogan; What Are the Years, by Marianne Moore; Faust, Parts One and Two, tr., ed. George Priest. New York Times Book Review 30 November 1941:20.

“The New Books of Poetry.” Rev. of The North Star and Other Poems, by Laurence Binyon; Collected Poems, Walter de 1a Mare; Guatama the Enlightened and Other Verses, by John Masefield; Selected Poems, by George Barker. New York Times Book Review 21 December 1941: 5.

“The New Books of Poetry.” Rev. of Calendar, An Anthology of 1941 Poetry; 55 Poems, by Louis Zukofsky; Reading Poems, ed. Wright Thomas and Stuart Gerry Brown; Hawk’s Way, by Ted Olson. New York Times Book Review 11 January 1942: 5.

“The New Book~ of Poetry.” Rev. of The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontë, ed. C. W. Hatfield; Vermont Chapbook and Orpheus and the Moon Craters, by Cedric Whitman; An Anthology of Pulitzer Prize Poems, comp. by Marjorie Barrows. New York Times Book Review 25 January 1942: 9.

“James Joyce.” Commonweal 13 March1942: 510-511.

“The New Books of Poetry.” Rev. of The Language of Poetry, by Phillip Wheelwright, Cleanth Brooks, et al.; Shakespeare in Harlem, by Langston Hughes; Poems, by H. P. Dixon; Awake and Other Wartime Poems. by W. K. Rodgers. New York Times Book Review 22 March 1942: 9.

“The New Books of Poetry.” Rev. of There Will be Bread and Love, by Robert P. Tristram; Elbow Room, by Oliver St. John Gogarty; Benedict Arnold,A Drama in Heroic Couplets, by Richard L. Stokes. New York Times Book Review 12 April 1942: 5.

“The Poet and His Livelihood.” Saturday Review of Literature 25 April 1942: 5.

“The New Books of Poetry.” Rev. of A Witness Tree, by Robert Frost; New Poems 1942, ed. Oscar Williams. New York Times Book Review 3 May 1942.

“Heir to Tradition and Free to Experiment.” Rev. of The Death of the Moth and Other Essays, by Virginia Woolf; Virginia Woolf, by E. M. Forster. Herald Tribune Books 4 October 1942: 3.

“Stephen Benét’s Work in ‘All-Embracingly American.’” Rev. of Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benét, New York Times Book Review 11 October 1942: 4.

“The New Books of Poetry.” Rev. of A Treasure of Great Poems, English & American, by Louis Untermeyer; Blood for a Stranger, by Randall Jarrell; Country Poems, by Elizabeth Coatsworth. New York Times Book Review 1 November 1942: 8.

“The New Books of Poetry.” Rev. of Note Books of the Night, by Edmund Wilson; Parts of a World, by Wallace Stevens; Sonnets to Orpheus, by Rainer Maria Rilke; Goethe’s Faust, tr. Carlyle F. MacIntyre. New York Times Book Review 29 November 1942: 12.

“Yeats: He Lived a Full Life.” Rev. of W.B. Yeats, 1865-1939, by Joseph Hone. New York Times Book Review 7 February 1943: 1.

“The New Books of Poetry.” Rev. of The Last Poems of Elinor Wylie; Stefan George: Poems Rendered Into English, by Carol North Valhope and Ernest Morwitz. New York Times Book Review 14 March 1943: 20.

“This Poet was often ‘fighting mad’: a new study of the many influences that shaped the ideas of W. B. Yeats.” Rev. of The Lonely Tower: Studies inthe Poetry of W. B. Yeats, by T. R. Henn. New York Times Book Review 10 February 1952: 1.

“The Flowers Transplanted.” Rev. of The Flowers of Evil, by Charles Baudelaire, ed. Martheal and Jackson Matthews; The Flowers of Evil, tr. William Aggeler. New York Times Book Review 7 August 1955: 1.

“Maker of a Nation.” Rev. of De Valera and the Marchof a Nation, by Mary M. Bromage. Saturday Review of Literature 2 March 1957: 21+.

“Q and A for Jews.” Rev. of Questions Jews Ask: Reconstructionist Answers, by Mordecai Kaplan. Saturday Review of Literature 9 March 1957: 37+.

Our Friend James Joyce. New York: Doubleday, 1958.
**The selections in this work that are attributed to Mary Colum are excerpted from Life and the Dream. The only new material the 1957 memoir offers is from the perspective of her husband, Padraic, since Mary died during its composition.**

Works on Mary Colum

Contemporary Reviews

Adams, Donald. “The Ideas That Have Made Modern Literature: Mrs. Colum, in ‘From These Roots,’ Stresses the High Function of Creative Criticism.” Review of From These Roots, by Mary M. Colum. New York Times 19 December 1937: 90.

Benét, William Rose. “A Colum as Columnist.” The Saturday Review of Literature 28 October 1933: 221.

Brooks, Cleanth. Review of From These Roots, by Mary M. Colum. The Sewanee Review 1 January 1946: 334.

Burgum, Edwin Berry. Review of From These Roots, by Mary M. Colum. Modern Language Quarterly 1 January 1945: 503.

Clarke, Austin. “The Crowded Hours.” Review of Life and the Dream, by Mary M. Colum. The Irish Times 25 October 1947: 6.

Doren, Carl Van, “The Rich Life and World of Mary Colum: A Chronicle of an Individual Irish Woman’s Contribution to Americans Intellectual Life.” Review of Life and the Dream, by Mary M. Colum. New York Herald Tribune 23 March 1947: E3.

Flynn, John M. “Treasurable Memories of Mary Colum.” Review of Life and the Dream, by Mary M. Colum. Chicago Daily Tribune 30 March 1947: B5.

Gannett, Lewis. “Books and Things.” Review of From These Roots, by Mary M. Colum. New York Herald Tribune 24 December 1937: 11.

Gannett, Lewis. “Books and Things.” Review of Life and the Dream, by Mary M. Colum. New York Herald Tribune 24 March 1947: 19.

Jones, Howard Mumford. “The Growth of Literary Ideas.” Review of From These Roots, by Mary M. Colum. The Saturday Review of Literature 15 November 1937: 6.

Kitchin, George. Review of From These Roots, by Mary M. Colum. The Modern Language Review 1 January 1946: 331.

Kunitz, Stanley J. “The Single Conscience: ‘From These Roots,’ by Mary M. Colum.” Review of From These Roots, by Mary M. Colum. Modern Poetry Association 1 April 1938: 86.

Maher, Mary. “Poet’s Ride Remembers.” Review of Life and the Dream, by Mary M. Colum. The Irish Times 27 June 1966: 7.

“Mary Colum Dies; A Literary Critic: Irish Writer Succumbs While at Work on Book on Joyce with Husband, Padraic.” New York Times 23 October 1957: 33.